Cyrodiil: What In The Blue Blazes

eso_lags · February 2020

DelosTheta wrote: »

I'll say right out of the box: I've been playing 2 years, never tried Cyrodiil. So I made a point of trying this week.

I didn't do too bad, at first.

But today was puzzling, and confusing. SO, because I hate whine threads, I'm just going to state my observations and those of you who actually know what you are doing can kindly provide wisdom and interpretation.

Disclaimer: I play on PS4, and figure some of my observations are platform specific (such as #1). So "Go get a PC" isn't a valid interpretation. A console will be valid for years, but a PC is only as good as the next game that requires the next step better hardware.
I was in exactly one great, huge fight in the middle of a keep. I had zero idea what was going on. The animation was so crappy it looked like the images had escaped from a strobelight show. Do you experts actually have a strategy, or do you do like me, and just spam the crap out of area effects?

In a number of fights, I could see I was doing next to no damage to enemy players, while they finished me off in just a few seconds. I have sharpened everything, impenetrable everything, gold everything ... heck I'm pretty sure I even have a rabbits foot somewhere, still no good.

SO I got assigned a scouting mission, to literally the opposite side of the map. I never could get there. On my final try, I decided to run my maxed out horse at breakneck speed through uninhabited areas. The sucky part of that plan is gates, of course. Some AD started wizarding me (I'm DC ... well, technically AC/DC) and I said, jeez, enough already, I'm on Comet the Super Horse. Nevertheless, the enemy (I never looked around) kept zapping me until I died. HOW? You can't cast on a horse, but I could see on the recap FIVE spells at least.

That's it for now. By the way, free advertisement, player available to good guild, PS4 NA East Coast. By good I don't mean good as in never lose, I mean good as in like the Justice League, and neither Wonder Woman nor Flash ever complained about Hawkman being there, even though all he could do was basically fly over and poop on the bad guy's cars.

Sounds like the laggy sad dumpster fire that zenimax has let this game become. Sorry but thats how it is now. Idk how populated servers are on PS4, but here on xbox our two options are; 1. A laggy pop locked server, or 2. A not so laggy, but super dead and boring, server. Sometimes IC is good.

So probably best to do what most people do and group up with 50 people, get healed, mash buttons, lag away, and at least try to have fun. I mean zerging isnt fun to me but it seems it is for most people. And its the safe bet when the game is the way it is.

geonsocal · February 2020

my first cyro toon was a breton stamblade (very similiar to what I played in skyrim)...

when I wasn't dying i spent most of my time hiding in the bushes...

after getting humbled in my first group dungeon (I was pretty useless to the group), I immediately created a heavy armor wearing magplar and then a high elf mag sorc...

the magplar did okay, but, the mag sorc - all of a sudden I instantly became a better pvp player...

all the classes have their pros and cons, but, no class has the mobility + defense + offense of the sorcerer...

not everyone's cup of tea, but - if you find yourself getting hooked on cyro - put together a few different builds to have fun in...

i was almost a few years in to the game before I ever built a healer - not a lot of fun to play solo (other than to troll people with low burst output), but, if you're grouped up it's an absolute blast to keep your groupmates and allies alive...

a templar or warden can make a pretty neat healbot...